Magotty turnips

[w33blegurl]

Hello!

I'm trying to grow turnips this year - little ones (tiny pal I think). But, every single one I've harvested has been maggoty! The first row I pulled were out in the open, but the second are under enviromesh so I'm a bit flummoxed as to what it is and how the hell it got under the mesh! It's really small white wormy things that are leaving brown tunnels through the turnips. Any ideas what they are and how to defeat them?
Thanks

[ameno]

It'll be cabbage root fly.
The adults are about the size of house flies and lay their eggs on the soil near brassicas.
Mesh is the way to protect against them, but you need to be sure there are absolutely not gaps whatsoever. If there are any gaps, the flies may well be able to find their way in.

[w33blegurl]

Ah! Thanks for that. I think there were probably a few gaps as I ran out of stuff to hold the netting down so perhaps not as well pinned down as it could have been! Well....still time to sow more and this time I'll make sure the little blighters cannot get in!

[roitelet]

I managed to beat them by suspending soft string soaked in j***s fluid ( when it was smelly) above the rows and that kept them off. So if you could find something smelly that lasts it might do the trick. I don’t grow them anymore!

[stevesmith91]

I managed to beat them by suspending soft string soaked in j***s fluid ( when it was smelly) above the rows and that kept them off. So if you could find something smelly that lasts it might do the trick. I don’t grow them anymore!

i did the same actually. Mesh is the way to protect against them, but you need to be sure there are camchat absolutely not gaps whatsoever. If there are any gaps, the flies may well be able to find their way in.